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Originally posted by Ginger
(and yes, kids did get married in my high school, it was a farming community and kids often left school early, got married, and took over their parents farms).
 Holy crap!!!
Because our school left it up to the PARENTS. I firmly beleive this is where sex ed should come from.
Disclaimer: Okay, I realize that 400 person high school in a farming town is going to be significantly different in culture than a big city, and perhaps the results of our non-education would have been different in a larger city. I'm only speaking from my experience.
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Yes, this would be WAY different in other schools. I teach in an "urban" school and I don't even trust the parents to feed the kids! We have kids with rotting teeth, lice, malnutrition, etc. So personal health is not valued.
Plus, half the kids in my school have parents that are younger than I am (25). I teach K-6. They have to get extra teachers at Kindergarten orientation and graduation to help curb the "baby's mama drama" when multiple dads show up for their kids' stuff and there is only one mom that they all came from! The only sex ed they get from their parents is if they accidentally walk in on someone!
Personally, I am a supporter of abstinence as a method of protecting yourself from physical and emotional turmoil. I am married and he is my only one ever!
BUT, damned if my parents didn't tell me EVERYTHING there was to know about sex, birth-control, diseases, etc. They made SURE all three of us kids knew how to protect ourselves if we decided to have sex even though they hoped we didn't (my mom used to teach Lamaze, Breastfeeding and parenting classes and she is a Labor and Delivery nurse. So I heard stories of teenage or pre-teen
moms coming in having kids, people with diseases, etc. I was almost given TOO MUCH info!
Anyway, that is how I feel. I will teach my kids (someday) that waiting is best but that you should be smart and use protection if you decide to take the next step
I don't want grandchildren until I am actually OLD!
